GREATER ZION TEMPLE

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

﻿BISHOP SHELTON C. RHODES﻿

PASTOR OF GREATER ZION TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

Auxiliary Bishop Shelton C. Rhodes was consecrated by Bishop C. E. Blake, Sr., Chief Apostle, of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. in the 109th Holy Convocation in November 2016. This appointment was the result of a recommendation by Bishop S. E. Iglehart, Prelate, Texas Southwest Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.

Bishop Rhodes is actively involved and most supportive in the Texas Southwest Jurisdiction. He is currently serving in his fifth year as Administrative Assistant. For the past 19 years, he has served as Jurisdictional Treasurer and Vice Chairman of the Scholarship Committee. Bishop Rhodes is in his fifteenth year as Trustee Board Chairman.

He has served in the very progressive Greater Temple District for 22 years, from the ranks of District Secretary to 17 years as District Superintendent.

Licensed a minister in 1991, and ordained an elder in 1997, Bishop Rhodes is in his twenty-first year in pastorate. He currently serves in his fifteenth year as the pastor of Greater Zion Temple Church of God in Christ in Temple, Texas, and presided over Troy Street Church of God in Christ in Tomball, Texas, on behalf of Bishop Iglehart from May 2016 to January 2018.

On September 1, 2017, Bishop Rhodes retired following a 36 year exemplary career as a federal loan officer. He has also served his community as a board member of a local food and shelter non-profit, in addition to being a very supportive member of the Temple Chamber of Commerce. He is also very active in the Temple City Council.

A 1984 graduate of Tarleton State University, he is a State certified teacher, with a B. S. degree in secondary level education.

He is the husband of the lovely Evangelist Missionary Deborah A. Rhodes. Bishop and Missionary Rhodes have been married for over 30 years, and have one son and one granddaughter.

On September 20, 2017, he was elected to serve on the National Board of Bishop’s Judiciary Committee of the Church of God in Chris

Bishop Rhodes has responded to the high call of Christian ministry, and is determined to preach and teach the life changing gospel of Jesus Christ.